China is building a world-leading hypersonic wind tunnel to test hypersonic aircraft that can travel at speeds of Mach 25 (30,627kph), media reported, saying it will aid the development of future spacecraft that can transport people or payloads into space at far less cost.

China is once again buying big in Russia. Chinese contracts on Russian military hardware are valued at $7 billion, Russian media reported earlier this month. China’s purchases had slowed following a significant spike in the mid-2000s. This latest uptick is contributed to the fact that the Kremlin has finally agreed to hi-tech sales.

In a sensational development, top Bangladeshi military officials have come under scanner of the Sheikh Hasina government after Chinese boats carrying arms entered Bangladesh waters and arms were smuggled into the country allegedly for local extremist groups and insurgent outfits in northeast India.

In a sign of thaw, Pakistan made first payment of $2.259 million for the running of South Asian University (SAU), a SAARC initiative, but raised with New Delhi the issue of students from the country not getting the mandatory quota in admissions, two persons familiar with the development said.

India has finally taken the first step towards eventually having integrated theatre commands, where all the manpower and assets of the Army, Navy and IAF are under the operational control of a single three-star general in theatre commands, by amending command and control rules for joint organisations and establishments.

The Mili Muslim League’s website reads like a regular Pakistan political outfit, offering translations in Urdu and English and promoting the rights of minorities and women. The party’s spokesman even calls for good trade relations with arch-rival India.

"Russia has become a strategic ally of China, even while it has many contradictions with policies and has questions about China's rise," Jawaharal Nehru University Professor Kamal A Mitra Chenoy tells Aditi Phadnis.

A parliamentary panel has asked the defence ministry to seek intervention of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) to resolve its budget crisis at a time the Indian military is struggling to scale up its capabilities due to a worrying fund crunch.

A major Chinese shipbuilder briefly posted, and then deleted, images of plans for ships and weapons systems that reveals that China may be planning to unseat the US as the most powerful navy in the world.